Introduction

Parent Portal is an application that lets parents see their students' work in Google Drive. It does not require that parents have a Google Apps account. Instead, parents log into Parent Portal using their students' Google Apps usernames and a piece of private student information that a school specifies.

Parent Portal can be accessed at this site:

parent-portal.appspot.com/<school_domain_name>

Setting Parents' Login Credentials

Open your Students Spreadsheet in Google Sheets.

If your school is in New Zealand and you would like to use students' National Student Numbers to let parents access Parent Portal, then add a column with the header NID to your Students Spreadsheet. Otherwise, add a column with the header UID to your Students Spreadsheet.

In each cell of the spreadsheet's NID or UID column, enter the corresponding student's NSN or an ID.Parents will use a student's NSN or ID to access Parent Portal. Student IDs are normally a number or code assigned to a student by a school's student information system. Student IDs must be:

unknown to people other than the student's parents and the school's staff

Setting up a School Blog

If your school does not have a publicly-accessible blog for students' parents, then please create one. Parent Portal's home page will show the most recent posts on this blog. You can use Google Blogger for this.

Post one or two entries in your school's blog. For example, you might write one post with your school's contact information and another with a welcome message for parents.

Enabling Parent Portal

Log in to your Hapara Admin Console.

Browse to Modules > Parent Portal.

Check the box next to Enable Parent Portal.

Under Login data requirements, select one of the following:

Require student NID (national ID)Select this if you are a New Zealand school using students' NSN for Parent Portal login.